#Cahilling: The forgotten memes we all need as Timmy says farewell

Tim Cahill farewelled the Socceroos on Tuesday night, so we figured we'd honour him with some memes from yesteryear.

Martin Boyle gets the Cahill treatmentPhoto: Getty Images

It was only three years ago but 2015 was certainly a simpler time!

Donald Trump was just getting started, Hawthorn were merrily heading on their way to a three-peat and Tony Abbott was knighting Prince Phillip. We were also all entertained for a few weeks at any rate by a series of Tim Cahill memes!

Early in the year, the Socceroos won their first piece of international silverware when they claimed the AFC Asian Cup on home soil in a thrilling 2-1 victory over Korea Republic in extra time.

Super Tim didn't score that night but his overhead kick against China earlier in the tournament had ignited social media, becoming an image that launched a thousand memes as it inspired a hash tag just called #cahilling.

The Cahill bicycle kick memes, though, were soon overtaken by ones where the Socceroos greatest striker is seen covering his mouth, an image that went ballistic as soon as he did it while posing with members of One Directionn!

Fast forward to Tuesday night and Super Tim has taken his final bow as a Socceroo, the diminutive goalscorer coming on late in Australia's 3-0 win over Lebanon but unable to find the back of the net one last time in an emotional send-off.

Instead it was new Australian Martin Boyle who did the damage, scoring twice in the first half and setting up Matt Leckie after the break.

Unfortunately we can't see the hash tag #boyling having quite so much impact as Cahilling, so we've decided to take a look back at some of those 2015 memes along with coming up with a few updated images of our own.